[arch] pacman-optimize

[Jürgen Hötzel]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:41:09PM +0100, Johannes Held wrote:
> What would you do:
> > root: [/home/jo]
> > pacman-optimize 
> > ==> md5sum'ing the old database...
> > ==> copying /var/lib/pacman...
> > ==> md5sum'ing the new database...
> > mv: Verschieben von „/var/lib/pacman“ nach „/var/lib/pacman.bak“ nicht möglich: Das Gerät oder die Ressource ist belegt
> > pacman-optimize: error renaming /var/lib/pacman
> > root: [/home/jo]
> > mount
> > [...]
> > /var/lib/pacman.db on /var/lib/pacman type ext3 (rw,loop=/dev/loop0)

pacman-optimize tries to rename /var/lib/pacman, which is a mount-point in
use on you system. It's not possible to rename mount-points in use. Maybe
you want to adjust pacman-optimize to use "mount --move" on your system.

Jürgen